Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding has been allocated to maintaining and repairing public electric car charging points to date.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 21st February 2022

Most public chargepoints are commercial assets where maintenance and repair are the responsibility of the chargepoint provider. Operational contracts agreed between local authorities and commercial chargepoint providers should include provision of maintenance for their operational lifespan. The Government does not record data on public chargepoint maintenance and repair costs.

The Government will provide over £1.3 billion over the next four years to support the continued roll-out of chargepoints on motorways and major A roads, in homes and businesses, and on residential streets.

The Government is working with industry to improve the consumer experience across the UK’s charging network. Following consultation, we recently announced plans to lay secondary legislation this year to mandate a new reliability metric to ensure that consumers can rely on the charging network.

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